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The Underrated Crime Comedy Series You Can Binge On Amazon The Underrated Crime Comedy Series You Can Binge On Amazon Amazon Prime Video By Helen A. Lee/April 27, 2021 3:29 pm EDT If you're looking for a limited series to binge that has dark comedic aspects along with murderous thrills and deceptive elements, you might want to check out an Amazon Prime Video show that's been around since 2015.  It's called "Mad Dogs," a 10-episode miniseries that sadly didn't get much promotion when it was released but still did well enough that Amazon considered turning the limited run into...

BIG SHOT (DISNEY+) Former Full House star John Stamos plays temperamental basketball coach Marvyn Korn in this 10-part David E. Kelley ( Boston Legal, Big Little Lies) dramedy. He’s a man who finds himself having to rebuild her career at an elite girl’s private high school after he is fired from a more lucrative role. “The charismatic cast certainly helps,” wrote Time magazine's Judy Berman. “Stamos may never win an Oscar, but he's a reliably likeable TV presence who makes it easy to root for a high-strung bully who's trying to rebuild his life.” CREAMERIE (TVNZ ONDEMAND) D...

Together, they run an orphanage financed by wealthy spinster Lavinia Bidlow (Olivia Williams), and face threats to their existence from multiple sources throughout society. There's Maladie, a serial killer giving the Touched a bad name around London. Then there's the mysterious Dr. Edmund Hague (Denis O'Hare), rounding up the Touched for his disturbing experiments. And then there's the government: stodgy old white men who mostly despised women and their quest for equal rights anyway—even before some women began to have superpowers. Subplots abound, as well: there's the underground sex club ...

CinemaBlend Major spoilers below for the first episode of HBO's new series The Nevers, so be warned. Mare of Easttown falls on the realistic side of the fictional spectrum, HBO's other new female-fronted series The Nevers tells a much more fantastical story. Centering on an orphanage filled with ability-laden characters dubbed the "Touched," The Nevers is something of a Victorian superhero story, which speaks to it being the creation of MCU and DCEU vet Joss Whedon (for better or worse), who left the series mid-production. Instead of keeping audiences in the dark about the origins behind th...

Ann Skelly, left, Zackary Momoh, right, in a scene from 'The Nevers.' (Keith Bernstein/HBO) Published April 15. 2021 12:01AM  Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times Get the weekly rundown Email* Submit Kicking butt in corsets and slaying with parasols, Victorian sci-fi drama “The Nevers” arrived under, or at least alongside, a cloud: Creator Joss Whedon, who left the series in November citing exhaustion, has been the subject of multiple allegations since last summer of creating an abusive work environment on other projects, including by “Justice League’s” Ray F...